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Half lithophyse polished, beige with red edging, presenting a geode in its center.
This specimen comes from the Lierbach Valley, Fribourg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Piece measuring 7.6 cm long by 6.6 cm wide and 3.6 cm thick.
It weighs 231 grams.

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Raw sample with bright colors oforpiment yellow and red realgar.
This piece comes from the Getchell mine, Adam Peak, Nevada, United States.
It measures 8.1 cm long by 7.7 cm wide and 4.8 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 378 grams.

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Classic sample ofepidote and albite on matrix.
This piece comes from Saint-Véran, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
It measures 8.1 cm long by 6.5 cm wide and 3.3 cm thick.
Its weight is 243 grams.

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Fluorite apple green partially covered with quartz, hexagonal calcite crystals and spherical chalcopyrite crystals.
The top of the piece presents shiny fluorite crystals in good condition.
This mineral comes from the El Hamman mine, Meknès prefecture, Morocco.
It weighs 333 grams.
This fluorite measures 8.9 cm long by 6.9 cm wide and 4 cm thick.

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Specimen of fluorite from the Franciman mine in the Tarn in France.
It presents a crystallization of blue cubes caught in quartz, on both sides of the piece.
Its base is sawn, facilitating its arrangement.
This piece measures 5.7 cm wide by 4.6 cm high and 3.4 cm thick.
Its weight is 98 grams.

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A piece with a rare association, with a crystallization ofepidote dark green covered with numerous andradite garnets.
This sample comes from Diakon, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes, Mali.
This mineral measures 7 cm long by 4.8 cm high and 3 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 134 grams.
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Specimen of fluorite from the Pratclaux mine, Haute Loire, France.
It presents a series of green cubes that rest on white quartz crystals.
This piece measures 7.5 cm wide by 6.1 cm high and 3.1 cm thick.
Its weight is 197 grams.

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Sample of gypsum fibrous in the shape of a crosse.
It comes from Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua in Mexico.
The gypsum measures 7 cm high for 1.1 cm wide and a thickness of 7 mm.
Its weight is 12.6 grams.
Measurements excluding base.

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Nice sample ofhematite nipple, typical of the Florence mine, Cumberland, England.
This specimen measures 10 cm long by 5 cm thick and 4.9 cm high.
Its weight is 485 grams.

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Mineral with a flaky appearance, presenting crystals ofhemimorphite shiny caught in limonite lamellae.
This piece comes from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
It measures 8.1 cm at the longest for 6.2 cm wide and 4 cm at the thickest.
Its weight is 129 grams.
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Coming from the Mâlain mine in Burgundy, France, this piece highlights a nodule of gypsum orange. The nodule is freed from its gangue and polished.
This mine, inaccessible today, contains rare formations of nodule gypsum and white radial gypsum trapped in clay marls.
This 409 gram specimen measures 10.6 cm wide by 6.5 cm high and 6 cm thick.

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Raw sample with bright colors oforpiment yellow and realgar red.
This piece comes from the Getchell mine, Adam Peak, Nevada, United States.
It measures 8.5 cm long by 5 cm wide and 2.7 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 188 grams.

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Polished slice of fluorite green and purple striped with good transparency.
The raw material comes from the Voltennes mine, La Petite-Verrière, Saône-et-Loire, France.
It measures 9.5 cm long by 4.3 cm wide and 1.1 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 117 grams.

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Goethite with a partial covering of calcite white.
It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.
This slender piece measures 14.7 cm long by 5.3 cm wide and 3.5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 138 grams.

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Rare association ofepidote with andradite garnets and crystals of stilbite.
This piece comes from Diakon, Bafoulabé Circle, Kayes, Mali.
This mineral measures 6.3 cm high by 4.2 cm wide and 2.5 cm at its thickest.
Its weight is 87 grams.
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Polished slice of banded fluorite in yellow, purple and green color.

It comes from Namibia.

This fluorite measures 9.8 cm long, 4.5 cm high and 1.4 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 160 grams.

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Goethite with a partial covering of white calcite.

It comes from Taouz, Er Rachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco.

This piece measures 9.2 cm long by 6.7 cm wide and 3.1 cm thick.

Its weight is 120 grams.

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Pretty piece with two transparent and shiny purple crystals.

This amethyst comes from Mexico, from the Las Vigas area, Veracruz State.

It measures 6.4 cm long, 4.9 cm wide and 2.6 cm thick.

Its weight is 65 grams.

A touch on the back of the main crystal.

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Fluorite green on gangue with crystallization covering a large part of the piece and therefore offering several directions of exposure.

It comes from Mandrosonoro, Ambatofinandrahana, Madagascar.

This piece weighing 317 grams measures 9.1 cm long by 5.1 cm high and 4.9 cm thick.

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Old piece of fluorite violet with polysynthetic crystals.
This piece comes from the Rancennes mine in the Ardennes, a site classified since 1999.
It measures 8.4 cm long by 5.2 cm wide and 4.6 cm thick.
Its weight is 292 grams.

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Aesthetic small piece associating cerussite, a fine crystallization of baryte and galena.
It comes from the Mibladen mines in Morocco.
Specimen measuring 4.3 cm long by 3.9 cm wide and 2.7 cm thick.
It weighs 50 grams.

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Raw sample with bright colors oforpiment yellow and realgar red.

This piece comes from the Getchell mine, Adam Peak, Nevada, United States.

It measures 8 cm long by 5.4 cm wide and 3.3 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 142 grams.

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Piece bearing two cerusites twinned on a thin baryte dewy.

Of good quality, it comes from the Mibladen mines in the Morocco.

Specimen measuring 8 cm long by 3.6 cm wide and 2.3 cm thick.

It weighs 95 grams.

Note that the largest cerusite crystal is not broken, the two terminations are just different.

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Fluorite yellow at heart and purple on the surface, covered by calcite in dog teeth.

This piece comes from the Minerva mine n°1, Cave in rock district, Hardin county, Illinois, USA.

It measures 8.6 cm long by 5.5 cm wide and 5.1 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 307 grams.

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Crystals ofhemimorphite white and shiny on a limonite gangue.

This mineral comes from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.

It measures 7.2 cm at its longest, 5.8 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.

Its weight is 102 grams.

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Piece of fluorite violet well crystallized on gangue, accompanied by a little quartz.

This piece comes from Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

It weighs 45 grams.

This sample measures 5.5 cm long by 3.7 cm wide and 2.3 cm at its thickest.

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Pair of crystals ofamethyst transparent and shiny, one of the crystals has a double termination, one windowed and very thin for the other.

This piece comes from Las Vigas, State of Vera Cruz, in Mexico.

It measures 5.5 cm long (length of the crystals) by 1.5 cm thick.

Its weight is 37 grams.

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Sphalerite gangue covered with a fine crystallization of shiny quartz, topped by gem crystals of fluorite violet.

Nice piece from the mining district of Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia.

This specimen measures 7.9 cm at its longest, 6 cm wide and 3 cm thick.

Its weight is 180 grams.

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Crystallization of fluorite on quartz and traces of barite. The purple crystals are intensely colored, shiny and bear well-marked growth phantoms.

It comes from the Berbès sector in the north of'Spain.

This aesthetic mineral measures 10.8 cm long by 7.6 cm wide and 5.8 cm thick.

Its weight is 397 grams.

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Piece of violet fluorite on richly crystallized gangue.
This piece comes from Buxières-les-Mines, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It weighs 168 grams.
This sample measures 7.9 cm long by 6.3 cm wide and 3 cm at its thickest.

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